A FURIOUS Hindu man reportedly beat his wife and four children and threw them out into the street because they refused to renounce their Christian faith.

Controversial: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected in 2014

And now Ramesh Kumar is calling on fellow residents of the Indian village where he lives to join in with their persecution, according to the Christian news network CBN News.

In a extraordinary display of zealotry, Mr Kumar, who allegedly stopped providing for his family early this year, has now placed an advertisement in a local newspaper urging residents of the village, in the northern state of Haryana, to shun his relatives, as well as convincing his 23-year-old son Neeraj’s employer to fire him, cutting off the family’s only source of income.

According to his family, he told them he would file an apostasy case against them if they did not renounce their faith.

His family claimed he told them: “If you did not stop going to church, I will drive you out from the house and file a case against you all since you have changed your religion.”

A man identified simply as Pastor Ramesh has helped them find a rented home, said British Asian Christian Association officer Pastor Naresh Paul.

He explained: "When I heard their story their great pain was apparent. They have been abandoned by the community because of their faith and no one [except Pastor Ramesh] is coming forward to help them."

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led his BJP party to victory in the general election of 2014, is a controversial figure in Indian politics as a result of his Hindu nationalist beliefs, as well as for his handling of the 2002 Gujarat riots, in which at least 1,000 people, including 790 Muslims, were killed.